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Bethany

Saturday, January 25 - Sunday, February 23

By Laura MarksDirected by Gaye Taylor Upchurch

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Summary

Crystal and Gary live in a nice home in the suburbs. Only it’s not theirs. In fact, they didn’t know each other before they moved in – and the story of how they got there is the beginning of Crystal’s plan to get her life back on track. Between her job at the Saturn dealership, her new housemate’s conspiracy theories, and the motivational speaker who just might buy that sports car, Laura Marks’s powerful new drama will take you on the ride of your life, with a woman willing to take on anything and everything…all for someone named Bethany.Contains strong language and a brief scene of staged violence.

Cast

Gary

Carlo Albán

Carlo Albán has appeared regionally in A Parallelogram (Center Theatre Group), Lydia (Denver Center Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, CTG), Hurricane (Asolo Repertory Theatre), All About Us (Westport Country Playhouse), Dreamlandia (Dallas Theater Center), and The Night of the Iguana (Guthrie Theater). His New York credits include Intríngulis, a solo show he both wrote and performed, A Small Melodramatic Story,References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, A Summer Day, Alice in Slasherland, Living Dead in Denmark, and Flipzoids. His television credits include “Law & Order,” “Touched by an Angel,” “Oz,” Thicker Than Blood, “Prison Break,” “Sesame Street,” “Criminal Justice,” and “Girls.” He has appeared in the films Hurricane, Hi-Life, The Tavern, Strangers with Candy,Life Support, 21 Grams, Whip It, and Margaret. Mr. Albán is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company and a recipient of New Dramatists’ Charles Bowden Actor Award.

Shannon

DeAnna Driscoll

DeAnna Driscoll is proud to return to The Old Globe in Bethany. She has performed onstage in New York and regionally. Her theatre credits include National Shakespeare Company Black Box, Cockpit Theater, Diversionary Theatre, MOXIE Theatre, ion theatre company, and San Diego Repertory Theatre. Some of her favorite roles include Randy in Superior Donuts, Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Grace in Bus Stop, Haley in Bad Dates, Betty and Mrs. Saunders in Cloud 9, Eve Ensler in The Good Body, Old Woman in The Chairs, and Regan in King Lear. Her television, commercial, and film credits include “Lincoln Heights,” “Point Pleasant,” “Veronica Mars,” Decaf, Nixon Baby, Union Bank, Pepsi, Sunny Delight, and AT&T. Ms. Driscoll is a proud member of both Equity and SAG/AFTRA.

Crystal

Jennifer Ferrin

Jennifer Ferrin is a New York City-based actress currently playing Louise Ellison on AMC’s Wild West drama “Hell on Wheels.” She recently completed production on the Cinemax limited series “The Knick”alongside Clive Owen and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Her other television series include “The Following,” “The Cape,” “The Kill Point”with John Leguizamo, “Life on Mars” with Harvey Keitel, “3 lbs.” with Stanley Tucci, as well as guest starring roles on “Person of Interest,” “Elementary,” “Royal Pains,” “The Good Wife,” “Unforgettable,” “White Collar,” “Nurse Jackie,” and “Boardwalk Empire.” In 2008, she made her Broadway debut as a member of the original four-person cast of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. She also appeared in Sex and the City 2. She is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Patricia

Amanda Naughton

Amanda Naughton has previously appeared at the Globe in A Doll’s House, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy, Lost in Yonkers, The Women, The Constant Wife, Loves & Hours, and Paramour. Her Broadway credits include Into the Woods (2002 revival) and The Secret Garden (also the National Tour, Jefferson Award nominee). She has appeared Off Broadway in Romance in Hard Times, Hundreds of Hats, 3 Postcards, and Mr. President. Regionally she has been seen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Chasing the Song (La Jolla Playhouse), A Little Night Music (Goodspeed Musicals, LA Opera, South Coast Repertory), Amour and O. Henry’s Lovers (Goodspeed Musicals), On the Town (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Gypsy, Tartuffe, The Waves, Misalliance, Bedroom Farce, and The Threepenny Opera (Hangar Theatre), Anything Goes, Hello, Dolly!, The Sound of Music, The Foreigner, Lend Me a Tenor, Steel Magnolias, and Barefoot in the Park (Forestburgh Playhouse), The Royal Family (Caldwell Theatre Company), The Betrayal of Nora Blake (Cuillo Centre For The Arts), Another Kind of Hero (Walnut Street Theatre), and Edith Stein (Geva Theatre). Her television credits include the role of Betty Roberts on AMC’s original series “Remember WENN,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Payne” with John Larroquette, and “Chappelle’s Show.” Her film credits include Mexico City and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which opened December 25, 2013.

Charlie

James Shanklin

currently plays Aaron Hatch on the AMC television show “Hell on Wheels.” He is a graduate of the Yale University School of Drama where he received his M.F.A. in Acting. In New York he has performed in several plays with The Public Theater including Everybody’s Ruby with Viola Davis, As You Like It and Julius Caesar for the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park, and the original New York production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. Mr. Shanklin has performed in regional theatres across the country including Yale Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Washington Shakespeare Company, Arena Stage, and Center Stage, to name a few. He has appeared in over 35 network television shows and 12 feature films including The Social Network, Moneyball,and Mission: Impossible III. Mr. Shanklin has been cast in three Academy Award-nominated films in the past three years.

Toni

Sylvia M'Lafi Thompson

Sylvia M’Lafi Thompson is a Craig Noel Award winner who was most recently seen in Coronado in Lamb’s Players Theatre’s production of Mary Edson’s Wit. Some of her other performances include the title role in Othello, Carrie Watts in TheTrip to Bountiful, Teiresias in Antigone, Rose in Fences, Mama in A Raisin in the Sun, and Stage Manager in Our Town. Her other credits include Coming Attractions, Boom,The Vagina Monologues, Gibson Girls, The Haunting of Jim Crow, Intimate Apparel, Dog Act, Going to St. Ives, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, A Streetcar Named Desire, Boesman and Lena, The Gospel at Colonus, The Mousetrap, The Fabulous Miss Marie, Stories About the Old Days, Miss Witherspoon,and A Christmas Carol. Ms. Thompson is the recipient of Drama-Logue, Billie, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle, Patté and Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Awards.

Team

Playwright

Laura Marks

Laura Marks is the author of Bethany, which premiered Off Broadway at New York City Center Stage II, produced by the Women’s Project, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, and starring America Ferrera. Bethany was nominated for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, won the Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Writers, was a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, was published in Methuen’s American Next Wave anthology in the U.K., and was chosen by John Guare as runner-up for Yale University’s David C. Horn Prize. Her other plays include Mine, produced last year in Chicago by The Gift Theatre Company, and Gather at the River, recently workshopped at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Ms. Marks is a graduate of The Juilliard School’s playwriting program and a member of New Dramatists. Her other honors include a 2012 Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, a 2013 Lilly Award, a 2013 award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, two Lecomte du Noüy Prizes, and a two-year residency in The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. Her plays have been developed at The Public Theater, The Juilliard School, Women’s Project, LCT3, The Black Dahlia Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Royal Exchange Theatre, HighTide Festival Theatre, The Wilma Theater, Lark Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Partial Comfort Productions, Prospect Theater Company, and more. She currently holds a commission from South Coast Repertory. Ms. Marks is a native of Kentucky and is now living in New York.

Director

Gaye Taylor Upchurch

Gaye Taylor Upchurch has directed the Off Broadway productions of Laura Marks’ Bethany (Women’s Project, Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Play), Lucy Thurber’s Stay (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), and Simon Stephens’ Harper Regan and Bluebird with Simon Russell Beale (Atlantic Theater Company). Her work has been seen at Culture Project, La Mama, and Lincoln Center Institute, among others, and she has developed new work at New Dramatists, New York Stage and Film, The Kennedy Center, Playwrights’ Center, Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. She worked with Sam Mendes as associate director on The Bridge Project’s productions of The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and As You Like It (Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Old Vic, International Tour). Ms. Upchurch is an alumna of the Women’s Project Directors Lab, The Drama League, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Her upcoming projects include Nancy Harris’ Our New Girl (Atlantic Theater Company).

Sarah J. Holden

Sarah J. Holden is pleased to be making her Old Globe debut. Her other collaborations with director Gaye Taylor Upchurch include the world premiere of Bethany (Women’s Project) and Harper Regan and Bluebird (Atlantic Theater Company). Her other notable credits include the world premieres of Neil LaBute’s Reasons to Be Happy (MCC Theatre) and reasons to be pretty (MCC Theater and Broadway), Checkers (Vineyard Theatre), Fifth of July (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre), Still Life (MCC Theater), Robert Altman’s miniseries Tanner on Tanner, the feature film The Ten (Sundance Film Festival, 2007), and the Comedy Central series “Stella.” She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Griffin, and their son, August.

Lighting Design

Japhy Weideman

previously designed the Globe productions of Bethany, The Rainmaker, and August: Osage County. His recent Broadway projects include Of Mice and Men (2014 Tony Award nomination) and Macbeth (Drama Desk Award nomination). His other Broadway credits include The Snow Geese with Mary Louise Parker, Cyrano de Bergerac, and The Nance (2013 Tony nomination). Weideman’s other noted projects in New York include 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center Theater), What’s It All About (New York Theatre Workshop), Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theatre Company), and Jack Goes Boating with Phillip Seymour Hoffmanand The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (LAByrinth Theater Company). His other regional credits include American Conservatory Theater, Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Huntington Theatre Company, Santa Fe Opera, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Internationally, Weideman has designed at Edinburgh International Festival, London’s West End, Royal Shakespeare Company, Ancient Theater of Epidaurus, Greece, National Theater of Korea, La Scala in Milan, Opéra de Lyon, and De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. His awards and nominations for lighting design include Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Hewes Design, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, and San Diego Craig Noel Awards.

Original Music and Sound Design

Leon Rothenberg

Leon Rothenberg previously designed the Globe production of Some Lovers. On Broadway he has designed The Nance (Tony Award), The Heiress, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nomination), and Impressionism. His select regional credits include Short North Stage, Two River Theater Company, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre By The Sea, New York Stage and Film, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, La Jolla Playhouse, and Intiman Theatre. His other work in New York City includes New York City Center Encores! Off-Center and Fall for Dance, Murder Ballad at Union Square Theatre, and work with Women’s Project, Tectonic Theater Project, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater, and Lincoln Center Theater. Mr. Rothenberg’s international designs include Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza and Wintuk, Diabolidad at the National Theatre of Cyprus, and King Lear at the Dijon Festival. klaxson.net.

Fight Director

J. David Brimmer

J. David Brimmer, a Fight Master with The Society of American Fight Directors, has choreographed the Broadway productions of Grace, An Enemy of the People, Hands on a Hardbody, The Big Knife, Wit, Born Yesterday, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Come Back, Little Sheba, Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. He has also choreographed the New York premieres of Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Blasted, The Whipping Man, Bethany, We Are Proud to Present, Harper Regan, Hit the Wall, Ages of the Moon, The American Pilot, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe. His other credits include Red Bull Theater’s TheRevenger’s Tragedy and The Duchess of Malfi, Druid Theatre’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, violence consultant for Donmar Warehouse’s productionsof the all-female Julius Caesar at St. Ann’s Warehouse and The Night Alive at Atlantic Theater Company. He has also worked at The Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, LCT3, Women’s Project, Soho Repertory Theater, MCC Theater, Signature Theatre Company, Theatre for a New Audience, Roundabout Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Center Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre and Guthrie Theater, and collaborated with David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Martin McDonagh, Tracy Letts, Kenneth Lonergan, Ken Russell, and Franco Zeffirelli. “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.”

Casting

Caparelliotis Casting

recently cast the Globe productions of The White Snake, The Twenty-seventh Man, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Royale, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Water by the Spoonful, Time and the Conways, Bethany, The Winter’s Tale, The Few, Double Indemnity, The Rainmaker, Other Desert Cities, Be a Good Little Widow, A Doll’s House, The Brothers Size, Pygmalion, and Good People. Their Broadway casting credits include Fish in the Dark, It’s Only a Play, Disgraced, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Casa Valentina, The Snow Geese, Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, The Trip to Bountiful, Grace, Dead Accounts, The Other Place, Seminar, The Columnist, Stick Fly, Good People, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The House of Blue Leaves, Fences, Lend Me a Tenor, and The Royal Family. They also cast for Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, LCT3, Ars Nova, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and three seasons with Williamstown Theatre Festival. Their recent film and television credits include HairBrained with Brendan Fraser, “Odyssey” (upcoming, NBC series), “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC pilot), “Ironside” (NBC), and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime).

Stage Manager

Diana Moser

recently stage managed Time and the Conways, Bethany, Other Desert Cities, and The Brothers Size at The Old Globe. Since 2004 she has worked on over 25 shows at the Globe including August: Osage County, The Recommendation, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, The Whipping Man, I Do! I Do!, Opus, Six Degrees of Separation, The Pleasure of His Company, In This Corner, the 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Restoration Comedy, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Moser’s regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and Arizona Theatre Company.

Wednesday, February 12
Explore the ideas and issues raised by a production through brief, illuminating post-show discussions with local experts, such as scientists, artists, historians and scholars. Subject Matters discussions take place immediately following select performances, attendance is FREE.

This special panel discussion in conjunction with Bethany will explore some of the issues raised in the production as they pertain to San Diego County.

Panelists Todd Gloria, Interim Mayor of the City of San Diego; Susan Riggs, Executive Director of the San Diego Housing Federation; and Debbie Ruane, Senior Vice President of Real Estate for the San Diego Housing Commission, will discuss housing affordability and affordable housing, and how the issue of housing has impacted the community of San Diego on all levels, from homelessness to the housing market.

Although this event is FREE, reservations are required to attend. Reservations can be made by calling (619) 234-5623 or by emailing RSVP@TheOldGlobe.org.